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123 Robotics Experiments for the Evil Genius is a good starting point for anyone who is just interested in either electronics or robotics. The text provides 123 experiments that have been designed to introduce and educate the reader about the mechanism and the electronics required for building a robot.

This book shows how you can create simple robots and models using inexpensive materials and tools found around the house and workroom.

Includes a printed circuit board

Table of ContentsMyke's rules of roboticsSection one. Introduction to robots

Experiment 1. Toilet paper roll mandroid

Experiment 2. Pipe cleaner insect

Experiment 3. Lego mobile robots

Experiment 4. Cardboard arm

Section two. Robot structures

Experiment 5. Cutting plywood

Experiment 6. Strengthening structures

Experiment 7. Finishing wood

Experiment 8. A gaggle of glues

Experiment 9. Nuts ad bolts

Experiment 10. Soldering and splicing wires

Experiment 11. Assembling the included PCB

Section three. Basic electrical PCB

Experiment 12. Electrical circuits and switches

Experiment 13. Electrical circuits and switches

Experiment 14. Voltage measurement

Experiment 15. Resistors and voltage drops

Experiment 16. Current measurement and ohm's law

Experiment 17. Kirchoff's voltage law and series loads

Experiment 18. Variable resistors

Experiment 19. Kirchoff's current law and parallel loads

Experiment 20. Thevenin's equivalency

Experiment 21. Power

Experiment 22. Batteries

Section four. Magnetic devices

Experiment 23. Electromagnets

Experiment 24. Relays

Experiment 25. Measuring the earth's magnetic field

Experiment 26. Direct current (DC) motor

Section five. Drivetrains

Experiment 27. Motor-driven crane

Experiment 28. Pulleys added to crane

Experiment 29. Switch DC motor "H-bridge"

Experiment 30. differential drive robot chassis

Experiment 31. Stepper motors

Experiment 32. Muscle wire

Section six. Semiconductors

Experiment 33. diodes

Experiment 34. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs)

Experiment 35. NPN transistor and two-LED lighting control

Experiment 36. Driving a motor with a transistor

Experiment 37. bipolar PNP transistor motor control

Experiment 38. Transistor motor h-bridge

Section seven. Our friend, the 555 chip

Experiment 39. Blinking LEDs

Experiment 40. 555 button debounce

Experiment 41. R/C servo control

Experiment 42. Light seeking robot

Section eight. Optoelectronics

Experiment 43. Different color LEDs

Experiment 44. Changing an LED's brightness

Experiment 45. Multisegment LEDs

Experiment 46. Optoisolator lock and key

Experiment 47. White/black surface sensor

Experiment 48. Line-following robot

Section nine. Audio electronics

Experiment 49. Buzzers

Experiment 50. Basic transistor oscillator code practice tool

Experiment 51. Electronic stethoscope

Experiment 52. Sound-level meter

Section ten. Digital logic

Experiment 53. Basic gate operation

Experiment 54. CMOS touch switch

Experiment 55. Bipolar transistor-based TTL "not" gate

Experiment 56. Sum of product circuits

Experiment 57. Common logic built from the NOR gate

Experiment 58. XORs and adders

Experiment 59. Pull-ups/pull-downs

Experiment 60. Mickey mouse logic

Section eleven. Power suppliers

Experiment 61. Zener diodes

Experiment 62. Linear power supply

Experiment 63. Switch mode power supply

Section twelve. Sequential logic circuits

Experiment 64. RS flips flops

Experiment 65. Edge-triggered flip flops

Experiment 66. Full D flip flop

Experiment 67. Flip flop reset

Experiment 68. Parallel data

Experiment 69. Traffic lights

Experiment 70. Shift registers

Experiment 71. Christmas decoration

Experiment 72. Random movement

Experiment 73. Counters

Experiment 74. Schmitt trigger inputs and button debounce

Experiment 75. PWM generation

Section thirteen Learning to program using the parallax Basic Stamp2

Experiment 76. Loading BASIC stamp windows editor software on your pc

Experiment 77. Connecting the PCB and BS2 to your pc and running your first application

Experiment 78. Saving your applications on your pc

Experiment 79. The "hello world" application explained

Experiment 80. Variables and date types

Experiment 81. Number date formats

Experiment 82. ASCII characters

Experiment 83. Variables arrays

Experiment 84. Using mathematical operators in the assignment statement

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The Parallax StampWorks Experimenter Kit is a comprehensive collection of everything you will need to learn about efficient embedded design. This is a great package for those who want ALL the accessories!

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This coin-cell powered microcontroller runs three LEDs through button selectable light blinking sequences with smooth transitions. Use it to teach soldering, have a late night blinky party, or hack into your own creation.